cauda cancri

Latin · noun
variant cancri cauda
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2024-05-27
Meanings
Literal translation
tail of the crab
Categories
animal part
Related Lemmata 8 ›

1. the tail of the Crab

1.a the tail of the Crab animal part

30° Cancer

in cauda sola XXX.

‘in the tail [of the Crab] only the 30th [degree is located]’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 8.4.4

Genre: astrological compendium Provenance: Sicily Date: ca. 334 CE

Firmicus Maternus. 1897. Ivlii Firmici Materni Matheseos Libri VIII, ed. W. Kroll, F. Skutsch. Stuttgart: B. G. Teubner. 2.289

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). cauda cancri (Lemma #1599). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1599/
Chicago (Author-Date)
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MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). cauda cancri (Lemma #1599). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1599/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) cauda cancri (Lemma #1599), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1599/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1599,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {cauda cancri ({Lemma} #1599)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1599/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1599/},
}